MRP Assistant

**MRP Assistant**

**Salary up to £25k**

**Blackburn, Lancashire**

**Full-time, Permanent (Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm)**

Do you thrive on meticulous organisation and possess impressive IT skills, including hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems?

We are currently recruiting an MRP Assistant to join our Blackburn site and support the MRP Controller with various administrative and operational tasks. You’ll be joining the business at a time of real exciting change with growth on the agenda

**Who are we looking for?**

Do you thrive on meticulous organisation and possess impressive IT skills, including hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems?

In your role as MRP Assistant, you will be supporting the MRP Controller with various administrative and operational tasks related to the materials planning and procurement process. You will be vital in maintaining an efficient materials planning and procurement process, ensuring that the right materials are available at the right time and in the right quantity to support production and business operations.

To do this, you’ll need to have excellent communication skills and be able to collaborate effectively and cross-functionally - mainly with production, procurement, finance and warehousing.

Previous experience in either a production/operations role or even a procurement/commercial role would be a great advantage

**The role of an MRP Assistant at BBF**
- Check the status of all deliveries that are OTIF and resolve any queries/involve procurement where necessary.
- Work with the site operational warehouse to ensure capacity is available for incoming deliveries and inbound deliveries are managed accordingly.
- Manage the stock and supply of selected suppliers.
- Provide cover for the MRP controller.
- Produce weekly/monthly forecast reports and publish them where required Internally and Externally.
- Produce/monitor and publish supplier service.
- Resolve all non-deliveries to ensure no operational downtime.
- Maintain the ERP system - highlighting BOM/SKU errors and resolving them.
- Place all forward print run requirements (within the contract).
- Challenge sales forecast to reduce waste on delisted material/packaging.
- Work with BBF 3PL warehouse providers / ensuring stock is booked in accurately and communication sent for incoming deliveries.

**Who are BBF Limited?**

BBF Limited are one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufactures a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cake, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

We have doubled within the last 5 years and we’re not looking to stop growing any time soon But we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it

On top of making some really tasty cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

**What do you get in return?**

Financial
- Salary up to £25k depending on experience
- Pension
- 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit
- Access to the company Benefits Hub
- Access to ‘Company Shop’ - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to meditation and well-being app

Personal & Professional Development
- Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team
- Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits
- Free on-site parking
- Free refreshments

**Recruitment Agencies**

We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly; therefore, any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any other vacancy.